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I've tried to buy reasonably priced furniture, not everything has been new either, many pieces have come from my relatives also. I've wanted everything finally matching, but I always seem to be in middle of change, having miscellaneous pieces of furniture here and there.

I prefer these days quite modern furniture, simple square shapes. Sofas and textiles in one color preferably, no patterns.

We built the first house in 1994 and the floors were beech parquet, there were varnished pine ceilings and the coloring in closet and cupboards was either beech, pine or light cherry wood. The furniture was mainly pine and ecru, more round shaped.

We changed houses with parent-in-laws and have been renovating for years. The coloring has more contrast now with wenge colored floors and white ceilings. The old look of this house was very yellow, because almost all floors and ceilings had sunburnt varnished pine covering. All walls were white! My mother-in-law thought this is the way to renew the look, by painting walls white or decorating them with white embossed wall papers. This I wanted to have changed and have color on walls.

It would be ideal to be able to buy all the furniture at the same time for the whole house, but we never could afford this and the old furniture has been still useful and would have been wasting money to replace them all.

Even though I don't like the pine colored furniture as much anymore and they wouldn't all match with the floors or walls, I've gathered most pieces into our bedrooms and tried to make kitchen and living room look more modern.

I used to be enthusiastic about decorating, but since the renovating of this current house has taken so long, I sadly haven't planned that much anymore. Now that all rooms are mainly done, it will be time to focus on finishing the decorating as well.

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